Exactly. In today's age, you can build a good roster immediately with the right hire/NIL support.

A more recent example is Wes Johnson at UGA last year. National seed in year 1 and almost surely will be at least a regional host in year 2. And he wasn't even a coach with a ton of skins on the wall (as a HC).

It's definitely possible to be back in the hosting conversation by at least year 2.

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Texas stealing Schlossnagle set this program back at least 3 years

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How?

People keep saying stuff like this.

And yet literally no one can say How.

Lemonis got fired and Miss St. got better.

Its never too Earley.

But pretty sure he is coming back next year.

or Joe Kines

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Pretty sure that only implies during the school year. Schools out.

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From what I can gather from google is that CARA limitations are for the "playing season" with no mention of whether school is in session or not. Also CARA requires one day off a week.

College athletes still have to go to school?

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Lemonis got fired and Miss St. got better.

Its never too Earley.

But pretty sure he is coming back next year.

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Did they fire the ENTIRE staff at State? No, they at least retained assistant coach Justin Parker as the interim and I assume most of the rest of the staff has been retained until the end of their season.

So why even mention it on the radio if it's a requirement.

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So why even mention it on the radio if it's a requirement.

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How should I know? Have you done any checking to see if CARA requirements end when school is out or are you just assuming?

EDIT: I'm not trying to defend how Earley has lead he team this year. If I'm wrong about the CARA restrictions I will gladly admit it.

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Exactly. In today's age, you can build a good roster immediately with the right hire/NIL support.

A more recent example is Wes Johnson at UGA last year. National seed in year 1 and almost surely will be at least a regional host in year 2. And he wasn't even a coach with a ton of skins on the wall (as a HC).

It's definitely possible to be back in the hosting conversation by at least year 2.

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This is why it's my favorite sport. Yes we got screwed over by schloss, but being a top 10 destination with one of the biggest NIL bases and fan support, we could bring quality talent in to hold us off a year or two while we recruit. I do believe recruits when nattys, but being a competitive team that has an Omaha identity while we build that would be ideal. But what do I know

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Monday is not soon enough.

Clearly HE is the problem. The talent is there or they wouldn't beat #1 and #2 seeds in the country. This is ALL on him.

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Or we're they're Missouri.

Athletic Department "sackless" day 1.

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Very disappointed to login and not see a firing announcement for entire staff.

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The entire staff? Who coaches the team for its last 4+ games?

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Mike Leak

We should have hired an experienced HC, not a "position coach" or coordinator. This is not like football where a DC or OC is as close as you can get to being a HC.

As well, Texas A&M, really any SEC baseball program not named Mizzou, is NOT a place where you hire a guy for OJT as it is his first HC job.

I would have been happy with the Bama or OU coach, or Matt Deggs. Earley just was and is not ready.

I think Earley will be given another year, but if he doesn't fire that t.u. cow hitting coach / OC he brought over within 24 hours of the season being over, there is no hope. I would also replace the pitching coach, he never has the bullpen ready and no read for when to make a pitching change.

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As well, Texas A&M, really any SEC baseball program not named Mizzou, is NOT a place where you hire a guy for OJT as it is his first HC job.

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The strike against Earely IMO is not that he had never been a head coach but that he was not ready to assume the position.

SEC Coaches with little or no head coaching experience before being hired at the current jobs
Butch Thompson (Auburn) - One year as a junior college head coach 20 seasons before being hired by Auburn
Kevin O'Sullivan (Florida)
Wes Johnson (Georgia) - Three years as a high school head coach
Nick Mingione (Kentucky)
Tony Vitello (Tennessee)

All five have had success with their current teams and only Wes Johnson (second season) has taken at least one team to Omaha.

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Here's what Earley said as the problem yesterday:

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"Just chasing too many pitches. Period," Earley said. "That was 100 percent the issue. Sometimes a chase gets looked at on strike three, but sometimes it's the chase in 1-0 or 0-1 that completely changes the count.

"We did a lot of that tonight, and that's not conducive to success and playing a complete game of baseball."

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That has pretty much been story whenever we struggle at the plate. Earley has diagnosed the problem, but he hasn't been able to get the players to fix it. That's the job. To get the players (who effectively got you the job) to do what they are supposed to do. Earley hasn't figure out how to do that, yet.

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This is not an easy skill. It's why people wash out of baseball. Sometimes it's in your head (pressure, not confident, not slowing down your eyes, being too aggressive, etc). You can give them the tools but they have to do it in the box. Familiarity helps. I'm sure we have VR and pitching machines that can be programmed to an opposing pitcher, etc to help practice.

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That response from Earley pisses me off. Something 100% changed in their approach this year and that's the single most infuriating thing that has probably been the biggest difference in this team not succeeding. We seem to be taking first pitch strikes every single ab, so we typically get behind in the count because teams know we do that and respond by pumping meatballs since they know we won't swing. We also seem to have put an emphasis on hitting homers - very analytics esq. So what could go wrong - get behind in the count and swing for the fences ??? So stupid. The results are what you would expect. Lots of chasing, popouts, deep fly balls, and k's. When the ball is carrying, everyone is happy and we pour it on. When it isn't, we can't do anything for 15 innings against a previously winless team in conference.

100% on coaching.

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What's been lost going from an elite proven head coach to a guy learning on the job is the importance of the process. When Schloss was hired we started hearing about all of these weird things he was doing like making the guys high 5 every time they passed each other.

It's weird you bring up the first pitch thing because that was a huge part of our offense under Schloss. We were just leaps and bounds better with 2 strikes. We had the same feast or famine offense, we just hit more HRs.

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Yes. The key was to get into the bullpen - which is where our hitters would win the game.

I don't have the time to look at this, but it's a very interesting hypothesis that is probably correct. This would be a good Brauny question. Do you know what pitches are being thrown less or more? I have a suspicion but I would like to know what you think.

another thought on this situation...particularly comparing Earley to Childress (who was also inexperienced when he became the head coach in 2006)...

heading into year 2 (in 2007)...Childress already had a very good pitching coach (himself) on his coaching staff. And he also already had a very good hitting coach (Deggs) on his staff.

most people would say that Earley has neither (or would have neither) heading into year 2

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As well, Texas A&M, really any SEC baseball program not named Mizzou, is NOT a place where you hire a guy for OJT as it is his first HC job.

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The strike against Earely IMO is not that he had never been a head coach but that he was not ready to assume the position.

SEC Coaches with little or no head coaching experience before being hired at the current jobs
Butch Thompson (Auburn) - One year as a junior college head coach 20 seasons before being hired by Auburn
Kevin O'Sullivan (Florida)
Wes Johnson (Georgia) - Three years as a high school head coach
Nick Mingione (Kentucky)
Tony Vitello (Tennessee)

All five have had success with their current teams and only Wes Johnson (second season) has taken at least one team to Omaha.

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Tony Vitello's sixteen years of little or no head coaching experience:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Vitello

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Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2002 Salinas Packers (assoc. head coach)
20032010 Missouri (asst.)
20112013 TCU (asst.)
20142017 Arkansas (asst.)
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Trev isn't the one that calls the shots on things like this.

He offered Beard over $10M/year between salary and NIL commitments to be our basketball coach. He just does what the major power brokers instruct him to. If someone wants to pay up to buy out Earley and make a run at a big name, I bet that is what we would do.

Yeah Trev will be told what to do and how much to spend. He'll then go out and report back on viable options, and the selection will be by entities other than him.